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قسم هر روزش بیاید بی‌‌جگر ** حاجتش نبود تقاضای دگر 995
- (That) the daily ration should come to him without trouble, and that he should not need to make a further demand.
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قرعه بر هر که فتادی روز روز ** سوی آن شیر او دویدی همچو یوز
- Day by day the one on whom the lot fell would run to the lion as (swiftly as) a cheetah.
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چون به خرگوش آمد این ساغر به دور ** بانگ زد خرگوش کاخر چند جور
- When this cup (of death) came round to the hare, the hare cried out, “Why, how long (are we to endure this) injustice?”
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انکار کردن نخجیران بر خرگوش در تاخیر رفتن بر شیر
- How the beasts of chase blamed the hare for his delay in going to the lion.
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قوم گفتندش که چندین گاه ما ** جان فدا کردیم در عهد و وفا
- The company (of beasts) said to him: “All this time we have sacrificed our lives in troth and loyalty.
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تو مجو بد نامی ما ای عنود ** تا نرنجد شیر رو رو زود زود
- Do not thou seek to give us a bad name, O rebellious one! Lest the lion be aggrieved, go, go! Quick! Quick!”
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جواب گفتن خرگوش نخجیران را
- How the hare answered the beasts.
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گفت ای یاران مرا مهلت دهید ** تا به مکرم از بلا بیرون جهید 1000
- “O friends,” said he, “grant me a respite, that by my cunning ye may escape from calamity,
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تا امان یابد به مکرم جانتان ** ماند این میراث فرزندانتان
- That by my cunning your lives may be saved and this (safety) remain as a heritage to your children.”
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هر پیمبر امتان را در جهان ** همچنین تا مخلصی می‌‌خواندشان
- After this manner every prophet in the world used to call the peoples to a place of deliverance,
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کز فلک راه برون شو دیده بود ** در نظر چون مردمک پیچیده بود
- For he had seen from Heaven the way of escape, (though) in (their) sight he was contracted (despicable) like the pupil of the eye.
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مردمش چون مردمک دیدند خرد ** در بزرگی مردمک کس ره نبرد
- Men regarded him as small like the pupil: none attained to (understanding of) the (real) greatness (worth) of the pupil.
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اعتراض نخجیران بر سخن خرگوش
- How the beasts objected to the proposal of the hare.